Susan Hawk

For the past 15 years, Susan Hawk worked in children's book marketing, most recently as the marketing director at Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, and previously as the library marketing director at Penguin Young Readers Group. Susan has been pleased to work on many different books during that time ranging from Eric Carle's Baby Bear, Baby Bear to Betsy Partridge's This Land Was Made for You and Me, to Nancy Werlin's Black Mirror, as well as the work of Mary E Pearson, Richard Peck and Joan Bauer.

While at Penguin, she also worked for a time in Dutton Editorial, acquiring projects for that list. Her favorite part of that time was being able to read new submissions -- she loved the thrill of finding something wonderful and imagining where it can go. Susan is looking for young adult and middle grade books; non-fiction and fiction (especially literary fiction), as well as fantasy, science-fiction, historical fiction and mystery.

Susan was born and grew up in Washington, DC, and was an avid reader from an early age. She remembers fondly summer days when she and her sister would make the trek to the local library, carrying the biggest bags they could. Lugging that big bag of books home through a humid DC summer's day was no fun, but, oh, the excitement of a new stack of books to read! When 14 years old, she found her first job re-stocking shelves at the Cheshire Cat Bookstore, one of the first children's only stores in the country, and children's books have been a happy home for Susan, one way or another, ever since.